Dictionary of Glengarry Biography

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====== Séguin, Hormisdas ====== 
 (1882-1944), carriagemaker. Born at Ste-Marthe, Que. He was married at St. Alexander’s Church, Lochiel, on 22 Oct. 1923, to Lydia Brunet (1892-1982), who was born in Lochiel Township, GC. From the time of their marriage, they always lived in Alexandria. Hormisdas Séguin was by training a blacksmith. After the closing of the Munro & McIntosh firm, he became a carriagemaker. In April 1942, he was making sleighs and buggies in Alexandria, turning out about forty units a year. At this time, he was believed to have the “only buggy manufacturing plant in this car conscious country,” and he had just shipped a made-to-order buggy to Col. Harry Cockshutt, the president of Frost & Wood. (//Glengarry News// 24 April 1942 ) Also in Séguin’s firm was Elzéar Pigeon, who had been a foreman at Munro & McIntosh, and Hormisdas’ son, François Séguin. Both of these continued for a time in carriage manufacture. François later operated a hardware store in Alexandria; he died 28 April 2006, aged 81. Hormisdas Séguin was the father of Jeannine Séguin. He and his wife are buried in the Sacré-Coeur cemetery, Alexandria. See [[pigeon_rene|René Pigeon]].


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<fs small>Full-page repr. of advert.,1938-1939, for Hormisdas Seguin’s carriage business, of Alexandria, in Oakley H. Bush’s history of Munro & McIntosh, “The Alexandria Carriage Co.”, //The Carriage Journal// (Summer 1984) * St. Alexander CR, II. 191 (marriage) * gravestone * Ostrom 38 * private information * Dane Lanken, “Alexandria, the Sleigh and Carriage Capital,” //Glengarry Life// No. 38 (2005) * François Séguin: obituaries //Glengarry News// 3 & 24 May 2006 (the latter by Dane Lanken, portrait)
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